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Vol. IV. —No. 107.] Saturday, Novembeii 15. 1851. 



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CONTENTS. 

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Perkin Warbeck, by Sir F. Madden ... 



A Hebrew SiTinoii in Englisli Stone, by Rev. Moses 

 Margoliouth ..-_.- 



Value of Sliakspeare's League — Meaning of Ship— Log- 

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Donizetti ---.... 



Folk Lore: — Ash Sap — The Ash — Souling - 



Minor Notes: — Pasquinade — Monk and Cromwell 

 Families — D'Israeli and Byron . - . 



QuEiiiEs : — 



Rorain Funeral Pile - . - . . 



Dacres of the North - - . . . 



Minor Queries; — Etymology of Salter _ Cliatles of 



Haselle — ■' Truth is tliat whicli a man troiveth '' 



Religious Statistics — Cross-legged Ettigies — Verses 

 accidentallv ocinr in Classical Prose often — Count 

 Maurice Tanner de Lacy, &c. - . - - 



Minor QuEiiits Ansivi-ked: — Derivation of /Era — 

 Tudnr Aled — Tonges of Tonge — Robert Hues on 

 the Use of the Glohus .... 



Replies :^- 



Tlie Caxton Memorial, by Bolton Corney, &c. - 

 Epigram ascribed to M.irv Queen of Scots, by Rev. James 



II. Todd - - ■ 



Stanzas in Childe Harold, by Samuel Hickson, &c. 

 Cagots .----.. 



Texts before Sermons - - - . _ 



'I'he Rev. . Gay ----._ 



Vermin, Payments for Destruction of, and .•\ncient 

 Names --.---. 

 Claims of Literature - . - _ . 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Arbor Lowe _ Stanton 

 Moor — .\yre I'amily — The Duke of Mnnniouth's 

 Pocket-hooks — BuMorf's Translation of Elias Levita's 

 " Tov Taam"— Burke's " Mighty Boar of the Forest " 

 — ' Son of the Morning" — " Perhaps it wa sright to 

 ilissemble your love " — .Anecdote ol Curran — Sibi — 

 Cassek Gwcnwvn — The Monumental Inscriptions of 

 the Buurchier Family, iS:c. .... 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Bnok<, .Sales, Catalogues, &c. ... 

 Books and Odd Volumes wanted . . - _ 



Notices to Correspomlents .... 



Advertisements ...... 



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PEKKIN WARBECK. 



In the Minutes of Evidence taken by the Select 

 Comiiiitl.ee on tlie British Museum, in May, 1S36, 

 p. 308., mention is made of " a paper •rivin;r an ac- 

 count of the landing of I'erkin Warbeek, signed 

 by Sir Henry \\entworth, and dated l(jtli [17ih] 

 Sept. 14Ii7," as tjf lii.stoi-it'al value. 'J'liis "paper" 

 was at that time in tlie possession of the late J\Ir. 

 Upcoit; and when 1 drew up for the society of 

 Anti<piaries the article on " Ferkin Warbeck's 

 History," printed in the Archeeologiu, vol. xxvii. 



pp. 153—210., I had no opportunity of seeing it, 

 and therefore merely made a brief reference to 

 it in a foot-note. The document subsequently 

 passed, together with a large and valuable portion 

 of Upcott's collection, into the hands of M. Don- 

 nadieu, and at the recent sale of that gentleman's 

 collection of autographs was purchased for the 

 British Museum. It is a letter irom Sir Harry 

 AVentworth of Nettlested, co. Suffolk (ancestor of 

 the Barons Wentworth), addressed to Sir AVilliam 

 Calverley, of Calverley in Yorkshire, from whom 

 descended the extinct baronets of that name. The 

 letter is not of great historical importance, yet, as 

 furnishing some notices of the measures taken by 

 the king, on learning that Perkin had landed in 

 Cornwall, on the 7th of September (only len days 

 previous), it will not be read without interest. 

 The letter is written on a strip of paper measuring 

 eleven inches by tour inches, and is signed only by 

 Sir Harry Wentworth. 



" Right wourshipfulle cosin, I recommend me vnto 

 you. And where* it fortuned me in my retourne home 

 frome \Vestche.stre, to ineit my lord Darby, my lord 

 Strange, and other at Whallcy abbey, by whome I had 

 the sight of suche lettres as were directed vnto theme 

 frome the kinges grace ; apperceyuing by the same that 

 Perkin Warbeke is londid in the west parties, in Corne- 

 velle, wherfore I wolle pray you, and allso in the kinges 

 name aduertise you, to be in aredynesf in your owin 

 persorie, with siiche comjiany as you make, to serue 

 his highnes, vpon an our:f warnyng, wlian his grace 

 shalle calle vpone you. For the which I double not 

 but his highnes shalle geve you thankes accordinge. 

 As our lord knoith, wlio preserue you ! Wretin in 

 the kinges castelle of Knaiesburght, the xvij dey of 

 Septembre. 



your [frend] and cosyne, .syr 



Harry Wentworth. 



Addressed 



To his wourshipfulle cosin syr William 

 Caluerley, knight, in haste." 



The Lord Strange mentioned in the above let- 

 ter was the third son of the Earl of Derby, and 

 died at IJerby House, London, on the 5tli Dec. 

 1497, less than three months after the letter was 

 written. F. Madden. 



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